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News: Performance / Tour

Esperanza Spalding Performs at Sanders Theater in Harvard Square on October 2, 2010

October 3, 2010

Jazz bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding is performing at Sanders Theater in Harvard Square, Cambridge, on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Spalding is an inventive composer and performer whose latest recording, Chamber Music Society, is influenced by classical, jazz, folk and world music. The concert is ...

News: Performance / Tour

Connection Works Presents the 4th Season of Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open @ Littlefield

October 3, 2010

CONNECTION WORKS PRESENTS The 4th SEASON OF BROOKLYN JAZZ WIDE OPEN @ LITTLEFIELD Littlefield is located at is located at 622 Degraw Street between 3rd and 4th Ave in Brooklyn “Celebrate music by being a part of the concert series that 'Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open' provides for the community at large!!! We need each other to ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Ron van Stratum

by AAJ Staff
October 2, 2010

Meet Ron van Stratum: Drummer/percussionist from The Netherlands. Has worked with Jim Beard, Scott Kinsey, Mike Stern, John Beasley, Mike Mainieri, Eric Gale and others. Currently teaching at Conservatory of Maastricht (NL). Has three CDs out as a leader, and is a clinician for Yamaha drums, and Meinl cymbals and percussion.Instrument(s):

News: Performance / Tour

Harry Allen and Ehud Asherie at Chautauqua 2010

October 2, 2010

This very inspired duo—Harry on tenor, Ehud on piano—took the stage early on at Jazz at Chautauqua and left a deep impression. Although their play looks casual, they reach memorable heights — whether they are handling the twists and turns of PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ like a pair of gliding skiers, or turning SOME OTHER SPRING ...

News: Opinion

Correspondence: Butler Did It

October 2, 2010

Rifftides reader Garret Gannuch practices pediatric radiology in Denver. When he moved to Colorado, his Louisiana soul went with him. A week ago, Dr. Gannuch traveled into the country south of Denver to hear a fellow New Orleanian. He knew that, like nearly anyone who's ever lived there, I'll never get over my love affair with ...

News: Video / DVD

Diversion: Johnny Wittwer

October 2, 2010

During my early development as a listener, I was immersed in the works of Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Miles Davis when along came Johnny Wittwer. Wittwer was a Seattle pianist who had been been important in the traditional jazz revival on the west coast in the 1940s. Early in that decade he had a trio ...

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News: Interview

Latin Jazz Conversations: Eddie Palmieri (Part 3)

October 2, 2010

Pianist Eddie Palmieri took shifted his direction in the nineties, building upon the sound that he'd spent his career creating and pushing it in a jazz direction. Inspired by his brother Charlie, a busy pianist in New York's Latin music scene, Palmieri immersed himself in the Latin dance music world as a child. The draw of ...

News: Interview

A Tale of Two CTIs (Part 2)

October 2, 2010

Yesterday I posted about Sony's upcoming four-CD box set of remastered CTI tracks and the 20 CTI albums from King (Japan) newly remastered by original producer Creed Taylor and engineer Rudy Van Gelder. As I noted yesterday, there's really no comparison between the two different efforts: The King releases are way more spectacular on every level. ...

News: Book / Magazine

Chasing the African Rhythms

October 2, 2010

African Rhythms, the as-told-to autobiography of the NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston (composed by Randy Weston, arranged by Willard Jenkins; Duke University Press) is set for October release to the retail marketplace. In the meantime we have embarked on the first in a series of forthcoming book signings and other book-related events coupled with Weston performances. ...

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News: TV / Film

Neil Young: Le Noise Film

October 2, 2010

LE NOISE OUT NOW Le Noise is the new album from Neil Young. Director Adam CK Vollick filmed Young performing each of the album's eight tracks. Shot at producer Daniel Lanois' home studio in Silverlake, CA, the 39 minute film is entirely in black and white and features the actual performances used on the record. “He ...